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Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler (born May 8, 1975, in Madrid, Spain) is a Grammy Award and Latin Grammy Award-winning Spanish-born, Miami-based singer and is of Asian and european ancestry.His Asian ancestry comes from his mother’s side of the family.
Iglesias is the son of the famous Spanish singer Julio Iglesias and the Filipino-mestizo, Filipina socialite Isabel Preysler.
Iglesias’s career started on Indie label Fonovisa who helped turn him into one of the most popular artists in Latin America and in the Latin market in the United States selling more Spanish albums than any other artists in that period of time. Before the turn of the millennium made a crossover into the mainstream English market and signed a unique multi-album deal with Universal Music for an unprecedented $48,000,000 with Universal Music Latino to release his Spanish albums and Interscope to release English albums.
Iglesias has had five Billboard Chart #1s singles in English and holds the record for most ever Spanish language #1s on Billboard’s Hot Latin Tracks with Seventeen. He is also the best selling Latin act in the United Kingdom as well the Best Selling International Artist in India
Iglesias’ album sales currently total over forty million, making him one of the best-selling Spanish music artists in the world. Iglesias has yet to overtake his father’s great sales figures, but has outsold Julio in single-album sales, arguably justifying the label his record company gave him as ‘best selling Spanish artist in the world’. He is the best-selling Spanish language artist of the last decade. Iglesias has said that if he has children and they wish to follow in his footsteps, he would naturally expect them also to be better than he is

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Added: July 11, 2007

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:15:52 -0700